The United States is increasingly embracing Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws, which hold producers accountable for the full lifecycle of their products, particularly regarding packaging ...

Brand Story - The packaging EPR laws in Oregon and Colorado mark a significant shift in how packaging waste is managed.

Similarly, the head of the Plastics Industry Association, who called Trump’s executive order an example of leadership, in ...

The organization is the state’s initial PRO under its Packaging Waste and Cost Reduction Act, which establishes EPR for ...

The Circular Action Alliance will facilitate reporting in three states in 2025 State EPR laws are implemented through a quasi-regulatory nonprofit entity known as a producer responsibility ...

Meanwhile, Oregon will be the first to implement its EPR for packaging law this year, with other states putting together crucial pieces of their own EPR policies that passed in previous years.

EPR laws in Colorado, Oregon, and Maine task PROs with devising the amount of revenue needed and the fee schedule for collecting it. Unlike in the three other states with EPR laws, private ...

Other states with similar emerging EPR laws include California ... the entity that imports the packaged item into the United States, or the entity that first distributes the packaging into ...